Well dwhisper that depends on time. Most of us here have a family and we simply don't have the time to be doing mocs. When we do get the time however we want to build something that we know will look uber cool and usually what we create is absolute gold.
I haven't made any mocs since I was a kid. Now that I am a father of 2 and soon to be a third my time is very limited. I have just been getting system sets and building them as it is far easier to build something with instructions than sorting through pieces to make a moc. I know 90% of the fun is sorting and building, but with time constraints it can be hard.

Those here who are young enough and more importantly have the time for moc building, keep going and let us marvel at what you create no matter how bad or good it may seem to the community._________________Please refer to me as SWR.

It's probably me again, but I envision an FBTB that can be more proud of its Star Wars MOCs, and if we were to pick five fig-scaled MOCs from the real Star Wars universe, we wouldn't have to search from last year for some good ones, let alone last week or last month. Perhaps that's a reason why I don't comment, just because I'm biased and kind of mean because I see no differentiation between the 181st Corps Troopers or the 871st. Maybe people should attempt to build "real" ships, maybe then I'll be happy. I'm not saying the current ones are necessarily bad, just, I think there must be more input from Star Wars itself. Maybe then the Star Wars MOCs forum might actually be something to look forward to viewing from any Star Wars fan's perspective. Maybe all of us should just keep going at a ship, and just not stop until we build it.

Look at Pepa's Falcon, heck, even look at my Slave I. If you look at the original versions, you'd probably have kicked me off the site for being so bad. And then I go back to those posts and most of the comments are "that's good, nice job"; dammit, if Unit never told me my old versions sucked, I would've continued to think they're OK. Even though they were dreadful.

That equation is only true because halo makes up such an infinitesimally small number that event the greatness of castle can't make up for it._________________Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein

Yeah, it probably has something to do with the fact that I'm probably thirty years younger than you. But I somehow still hate clones. Clones commanders suck. But weren't K-Wings around like eleven years ago, I think after the Thrawn series?_________________

Maybe... I never really payed that much attention to the ships in any books, since the authors could basically make up what they want. The only reason I know about the E-Wing is because of the comics, and the Stealth-X because it's mentioned in like 18 different books.

And I'm not that old..._________________Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein

Not since the last iteration. It's actually still put together, but packed away._________________Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein

Junsier what about the old castle sets from the 80's? They were great for moccing a really awesome castle. I had one, plus the police station that came with a helicopter and of course cars. I made my own police van. However both those sets fell apart years ago and have now been used to make other things. I made a rebel base with the castle pieces. Apart from the grey color scheme it seems to suit the rebels. It even has a hidden hanger bay for the a-wing. The top roof of the hanger bay doubles as a landing platform.

The rest of the castle pieces and the roller door that I got with the police station, were made into an imperial base. Even though it says police on it, it suits the imperials. I know that the colors are all wrong, but meh, I don't care as I made it years ago mainly to use up the pieces as I just had way too many._________________Please refer to me as SWR.

The force is strong with this one......

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I get the feeling that among the members it isn't accepted at any point. If you regard your contribution to your own MOC thread as bumping, you have to be really clever to get away with it.

Even if there is a question in your last post, the fact that you yourself enters the thread might very well kill the ongoing discussion. I find this a bit strange and not something I've seen in other forums.

It is as if members when just browsing through the list, simply just skips a thread if the creator of a topic and the last poster is the same member.

For example: You have posted pics of a new MOC and the response is really good. After a while you enter and writes: "-Thanks for all the great suggestions, but what do you think about the color scheme? I've used different colors in pic 6 and 7. Which one is the best color scheme for this Moc?"

My experience is that the thread is going to die. You've had your chance to show your work and if members have liked it and you've got some good feedback, you should be satisfied by this point. Let's all go to the next MOC!!

I think that this is one of the sad things with this particular forums.
Or is this just me and my really bland MOC's?

The reason for me to bring this up is as follows:
I belive that this pattern of not wanting to even read the last post by a thread creator, collides with all the resoning about constructive criticism in this thread. It is difficult to get the right feedback when you're not supposed to participate yourself.

I'm afraid that most members look upon this forums as a place to get praise for good work, and every attempt by the builder to start a discussion is just seen as shameless bumping to have more of it.

You rarly see discussion about building styles and building methods because the builder really have limited opportunity to talk about the project, due to the short life span of threads where you write a lot yourself.

To often the so called "constructive criticism" is just a bunch of rigid opinions well worthy of a discussion that never take place.

"-In the movie, it's grey. Use grey!!!!"

"-The cockpit has a open space so the pilot is going to die. Change it!!!"

"I love how you've managed to get the right shape, but you should have used less colors and replaced all the plates with smooth tiles!!!

"I like the battle damaged look, but I don't like the use of old and new greys together!!"

And by the way. What happened with this thread and the discussion about constructive criticism? You would have thought that at least this topic could live for a while in here. Didn't you.